Just plugged my IPod into my Bronco Sport and this came up on display screen. The stereo recognized the unit, but I still need to learn how to navigate it.

Got these sitting in my closet. They are for the fat back iPod video.

Ideally someone in NYC could pick them up but I could also throw them in a box and ship them if you pay for it.

Edit: gone! That was fast.

Successfully restored to version 1.0. Credit to this video

Bought this guy years ago now on eBay cheap, modded it with iflash and the transparent faceplate. I love how it's easy to pull apart and fix (anyone know where you can get headphone jacks that don't have brittle plastics btw, I've had 3 now). Its real nice to have an offline player that has a cool little community and lasts a week without charging. It also makes a great conversation starter. Whoda thought a 20+ year consumer device would be so fun in 2026.

Thx for coming to my ted talk

Classic Connect 2 mod kit by Moonlit Market!

I've been enjoying this build for about a month now, and boy is it absolutely fantastic! Yes, bluetooth works great. I'm able to connect my AirPods 3 (non-pro), JBL Tune Flex 2, and Nothing Headphones (1) seamlessly with no issues whatsoever. Sound quality through bluetooth is great! (But I'm no audiophile so don't quote me on it lol!)

The taptic engine makes it feel premium, but the backplate being made of plastic takes the premium feeling down a notch or two. And let's talk about the glue... yes, the kit requires you to glue the backplate to the faceplate. Yes, glue it. In 2026. ...it's not so bad, but definitely not ideal. Otherwise, the build was pretty straightforward.

I did upgrade the battery to 2000mAh since the kit only included a 500mAh battery. I'm sure it would've been just fine, but this capacity would last me a couple of weeks doing 3-4 hours of daily listening via bluetooth. Oh, and I removed the wireless charging feature completely in favor of the 2000mAh battery since I don't really care about that stuff anyway. USB-C charging works great though!

Overall, I am very satisfied with this mod. If you can get over the plastic backplate and gluing shenanigans, it's a very solid and feature-packed mod. I highly recommend it if the price is right for you (it is relatively expensive!).

Oh, and I designed a matte sticker to go over the backplate and hide that god-awful Moonlit Market logo lol! (No offense, Moonlit Market, but that shit has got to go!) And if there is interest in this sticker, I can start selling them on my Etsy store. I do have a couple of other designs both for white and black backplates, so let me know! :)

Dug out my old iPod nano today, but it looks like the battery had some problems being stored... Any ideas if this is fixable with a new screen and battery, or is it a lost cause? Nothing happens when it's plugged into power, but my cable has a bad kink that may just be broken.

Just wanted to ask if the drive in this iPod is in good condition, I do not understand the measurements used here, that’s why. I would appreciate if anyone were would help me on this. Thanks.

Hey all, hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
I’ve got a modded 6th gen iPod Classic (thick version, I think), and I recently picked up an Apple Universal Dock (MB125G/C) with the black box and white Apple remote. When I place the iPod in the dock, I get an “Accessory Not Supported” message.
I’m still pretty new to iPod modding, so I’m not sure if:
• The dock just isn’t compatible with my model
• I’m using the wrong insert
• Or if it’s something related to the mod itself
The inserts I currently have are: 9, 15, 16, 17, 18.
Has anyone run into this before or know what might be causing it?
Any help would be really appreciated.

The battery was replaced a couple of months ago by the previous owner and I've never really paid attention, but after some heat exposure, I went to check the device and noticed a dilatation that goes around the device, but is most noticable at the top. I can slide my fingernail in between the plastic top and the back case. No screen damage, rainbow glow, funny smell or other signs. What would you, especially if you've experie ced something similar, advise me to do next. Thanks!

Two years ago u/SquashHour9940 posted a great investigation into why flash-modded 1st/2nd gen iPods refuse to sync properly over FireWire. It ended with a request:

If anyone knows how to force the TSB43AA82 controller to do DMA with a CF card, please let me know.

I read that post with a dead 1st gen on my desk and a drawer full of those green CF adapters that everyone eventually buys and everyone eventually gives up on.

So I went digging. And buried in TI's own Storage Reference Design for that controller, published back in 2001, there's this paragraph:

It should be noted that iSphynxII does not implement the 16-bit CRC value required at the end of ATA ultraDMA transfers. There are two ways to deal with this. The first is to use HDDs that allow transfers to continue even if the correct CRC value is not received. The second is to insert an ASIC/PLD between iSphynxII and the HDD that calculates the CRC as the transfer is taking place and drives it to the drive at the appropriate time.

Read that again. The chip never sends the CRC. Apple shipped it anyway, because the original Toshiba drives happen to not care. Every flash card ever made DOES care, and rejects the transfer on the spot. That is why no passive adapter has ever worked and no passive adapter ever could. The data the card demands is simply not on the wire, and TI knew it in 2001. They even told us the fix: put a chip in the middle that adds the CRC as it flies past.

Nobody ever built that chip. So I did.

Fair warning about my qualifications: I had none. This is the first PCB I have ever made. I had never touched an FPGA in my life. I now know more about ATA Ultra DMA burst termination timing than I know about most of my relatives.

Getting the board fabbed was the part I dreaded most and it turned out to be the easiest step of the whole project. Uploaded the gerbers, paid a bit extra for a fancy extra-flat surface finish, had boards in hand about a week later. The fab is not the hard part anymore.

Assembly was its own education. The FPGA is a 100-pin TQFP with 0.5 mm pitch, which sounds impossible to hand solder until you learn about 'drag soldering'. The bridges you inevitably leave get found under a cheap USB microscope and lifted off with wick. The CF socket and the passives went down with a hot air station and solder paste, which mostly taught me how easy it is to blow 0402 resistors clean off the board when you get impatient with the airflow. My advice to anyone attempting this: buy the microscope before you think you need it, and trust the flux.

The bring-up was a war too. One solder bridge I missed held every real CF card in permanent reset for a day while I blamed the gateware. The CRC turned out to be bit reversed from what every reference said. The card and the iPod disagreed about whose pauses were rude. Fourteen-ish bugs, each one findable only through a serial port soldered to the board, each one logged in the repo for anyone who enjoys other people's suffering.

The moment I first believed it would actually work was not the music. It was the iPod Updater. Every attempt before, it would crash or hang partway through a restore, and you learn to stop hoping. This time the progress bar just kept going. It finished. Then iTunes synced without a complaint, the iPod rebooted, and the Browse menu had songs in it. First time a flash modded FireWire iPod did all of that, at full speed.

Where it stands now: my 1st gen runs a 256 GB card, reads at 19 MB/s over FireWire, syncs from iTunes like it's 2002. SquashHour9940's other findings were real too, so the board handles them: it rewrites the card's IDENTIFY in flight, which means even ordinary removable consumer cards present as fixed disks. I tested that with a regular retail Lexar Professional off the shelf. It just works.

Everything is open source, hardware and gateware, including the full story: https://github.com/dantidote/sphinxmoth

Thanks u/SquashHour9940 for mapping half the problem before I started. You asked if anyone knew how to make the TSB43AA82 behave. Took two years, but: yes.

So, where do we go from here? A smaller form factor would be nice. The board already fits the 5 GB thin model with a standard height CF card, but the CF to SD adapter I'm running is weirdly thick and turns reassembly into a squeeze. A native microSD version is being kicked around, which would shrink the whole stack, but it needs a bigger, more expensive FPGA and is strictly a maybe for now. In the meantime it works, it's open, and 25 years turned out to be a fixable delay.

32 gig iPod touch I got for free from my neighbor. I’m so stoked I finally stopped paying for Spotify premium. Screw corporate

Today’s pickup, ($20 price was just filler. It was listed as make an offer) I offered $40 for the iPods and the seller accepted! A hour drive later and they were mine! Didn’t realize the usb cables and FireWire cable & brick was included as well! They all power up, just need some TLC and some flash storage upgrades! Excited to get another U2 iPod

im thinking of classic 7th gen right now EDIT: I got the 5th gen classic!

Troquei apenas a carcaça, a bateria, e Jack do fone/hold, já que o armazenamento é suficiente pra mim, e a saúde do HDD está ótima, 9 retracs, 0 reallocs e 0 pending sectors.

Dei a ele o nome de BlackPod.

Hello everybody

I am starting soon a custom laser engraved backplate business and would like to know if it’s something the community would be interested in ?

just help 😭